Childish thinking

July 28th, 2017

1 Corinthians 13:11 (KJV)  “When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.”  

Why do christians (so called) continue to be happy with primary Sunday School?  The more i question the more i see adults are content with that very thing.  Comfortable where they are, no worries thinking,  “I’m in”.

Just recently had an individual ask questions on translations, wording, verbiage, meanings and what ever else one may want to incorporate into the text questioned.  Most of these questions are truly childish to the context of what scripture is trying give mankind:  the salvation of the soul/spirit.  They, those who continue to question the wording rather than the spirit of the Word are allowing satan free reign into their understandings.  Early on there was only a very few translations available to mankind.  Those translations were very close to the intended information that God wanted to be delivered to man.  But man; as usual in this case, wants to turn a profit on others work, to have a say in what is being portrayed.  i feel God allowed these insurrections to His Word too occur as God has given them over to their own personal evil desires: “Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?  But I trust that ye shall know that we are not reprobates.  Now I pray to God that ye do no evil; not that we should appear approved, but that ye should do that which is honest, though we be as reprobates.  For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.”  2 Corinthians 13:5-8.  Did not God say:  “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?” Jeremiah 17:9.  Then  God knows my heart and that i’m to trust in His knowledge of me, my heart, and believe, not to rationalize, complain make excuses for my actions opposing His most Holy Word.  When i commit to wrong actions i am, as Adam, have become void of faith and allow pride to reign.  But in my believing i will allow God to make the corrections in my heart:  “Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.  And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.  And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.  For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.  Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.”  Romans 8:26-30.

How does scripture address these childish reflections:  how does God see us who are actually in the body? what does He have to say of us?  

“For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.  For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe.  But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.  Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of

repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,  Of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.  And this will we do, if God permit.”  Hebrews 5:12 through Hebrews 6:3. 

No where can i find passages that would denote the concerns of the writer to go into greater detail.  Evidently God didn’t permit or there would be more on this subject: Heb 6:1-2.  Try this on then:  “Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ”  but where is most all teaching from in Sunday School and Sermons.  iv’e said before most always the only time any of Paul’s epistles are used is in a vain attempt to support what is being taught from other scriptures other than Paul’s epistles.   What does one do with “Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more.”  2 Corinthians 5:16.  Or “For though ye have ten thousand instructers in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.”  1 Corinthians 4:15.  What is that gospel Paul is referencing too?  “Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand;  By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.  For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;  And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:” 1 Corinthians 15:1-4.  Rarely do i hear this gospel, the gospel  “By which also ye are saved,”  Pauls gospel, the Apostle to us Gentiles: “Now to him that is of power to stablish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret since the world began,”  Romans 16:25; rarely do i hear this being given by the teacher, pastor , elder etc… as being the needed,  understood gospel that save today.   

Heard a man say once that the laity: “ The persons in the pew will never go beyond there leadership.”  How does one grow past the teacher?  If the teacher only knows addition, subtraction etc, how do they teach geometry?  They stumble through and just hope that no one asks a question.  If they do, they’ll be shined on, passed off as being ignorant or worse yet be labeled reprobate,  and when that doesn’t work will be invited to leave.  But isn’t that the way Jesus Himself and Paul also were treated by the Jewish leadership.  Does one really think things have changed;   What sayeth the preacher?  “ The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.”  With “I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.”  Ecclesiastes 1:9 and 1:14.

“Except the Lord of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah.”  Isaiah 1:9.   Current population of the US  is about 326 million.  Of that 62% report that they are “christian”.   But when one is questioned, most are very, very ignorant of what they claim to be.  Is this not a childish mindset.  One is told to be a member, get baptized, give tithe; these things are proofs of the eternal promise and are content therein to stay; believing the lie of satan to their own destruction (2 Cor 4:1-4).  iv’e wrote before, that if one could actually comprehend eternity, no end, the experience of just it always being “now”.  Take some time and contemplate this:  “Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;   When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe (because our testimony among you was believed) in that day.”  2 Thessalonians 1:9-10.  If one could understand those two verses it would scare them to near death, really, to death.  But God is merciful and will only allow man to go so far in there understanding:  thats why God created faith, faith to believe or not.  So do you believe?  or will one be judged as to having ; “unless ye have believed in vain”; and that is most provable in respect to what Isaiah was given by God ; written in Isaiah 1:9 (above).  

Lord Jesus thank You for loving me and giving me Your life.  i love You, i believe You, even when i fail in unbelief You are faithful too me in what You have told me of me and what in that You have done for me.  i have Your Word to me, i have Your Word in me, a love letter just to james, i adore it and dwell on its truths daily. Still patient in waiting for that blessed hope of Your soon return, to be like You, for i shall see You as You are for i will be like You.  i’m so joyful that i see it, Your return as only ever getting closer and when it arrives i will be totally complete in You.  In Jesus’s name Amen  . . . . .